Joseph, who is legally blind, offered his wallet and pleaded, “I don’t have any more. Look!” according to his granddaughter Gina Naimo, 29.

“He saw there was no money in [his wallet] and he started taking it out on my grandmother, beating on her,” Gina added. “My grandmother is the kind of woman that if somebody came in and wanted something and didn’t have money, she’d give it to him.”

Linda is in critical condition at Richmond University Hospital with a fractured skull, broken nose and broken jaw.

“My mother is not too good,” said her son, Rocco Naimo, 49, who suffered a black eye when he came to his parents’ defense.